Gayla Betts's Lounge Discussions

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Just watching this video. It has some helpful tips on selling scripts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUpH9JDKmOQ

A little about me - I've written and sold screenplays to Hallmark Hall of Fame and NBC, Cosgrove-Meurer to name a few. I'm also a playwright who's written and produced 8 musical comedies and numerous plays. As a writer, I specialize in quirky comedies that focus on the challenges of being human.I'm great with subtext and funniest when I'm being most sincere. I'm really delighted to be part of the Stage 32 and want to contribute as much as I can. A little bit more about me - I'm also a very experienced private coach and script consultant with more than 20 years experience teaching beginning writers to Kennedy Center student award winners.I know how to get writers through their first draft and raise the bar for writers who are trying to get to the next level. I can help you make your script shootable, readable and buyable. You can also check me out on fiverr.com as happywritergirl. I was a Michener Fellow in Screenwriting at the University of Texas and I currently teach screenwriting at Texas State University.

Published novelist, unfilmed screenwriter -- technically retired. I have enjoyed a colorful and varied career. After majoring in electrical engineering at the University of Arizona, I joined the Navy and served with the UDT (forerunner of the Seals). Upon discharge, I entered into broadcasting and for the next 17 years the only position I didn't hold was as a station owner. I have taught physics, computer programming and design, and digital electronics at several universities. I love teaching and I enter academia at least once every ten years in order to maintain an appreciation for the ‘real world’ outside. I have held positions as a computer programmer, designer, systems engineer, and systems administrator as well as owning or collaborating in several computer-consulting companies as well as an advertising and public relations firm. I have lived and worked in almost all of the lower 48 States as well as South Africa and Israel. I learned the Russian language in self-defense while working with several Russian ex-patriots in New Jersey that would make jokes in their language about my resemblance to the late Vladimir Lenin. I currently live and write in Guelph, Ontario.

Hi All, I joined Stage 32 in 2012 and can't believe I haven't introduced myself yet. So, HELLO! I'm here to connect, and help out with productions as much as possible. Please feel free to say hello and/or add me to your network. I'd be delighted! ~ Gayla PS: Here's a little about me, taken from my freshly revamped profile: I write spec scripts, and I'm available for writing assignments. As an award-winning screenwriter, I specialize in thrillers. Before I discovered screenwriting, I was a corporate executive where I learned the fundamentals of delivering on commitments under pressure, and am proud of my achievements in that world. (If you’d like to know specifics, please ask.) When I first stepped away from management, writing assignments included adaptations, and writing scripts for training, advertisements, webinars, and library projects. I like to learn, and enjoy challenges. I’m a silversmith, a triathlete, an animal lover, a trained-investigator, and a guilt-ridden gardener. My personal experiences are shared on my blog: www.sitdeskwrite.com. My current thriller is on the verge of being launched. ~ Gayla Gayla Betts gjdbetts@yahoo.com 309-830-2435 http://www.imdb.me/gaylabetts